Sentences with phrase «put general relativity»

To put general relativity to its greatest test, we need to see whether it holds up where gravity is extremely strong.

LIGO and future gravitational wave experiments will also allow physicists to put general relativity to the test.

«Over the next years, LIGO will be putting general relativity to its most stringent tests ever, it will be discovering new sources of gravitational waves, and we will be using telescopes on the ground and in space to search for light emitted by these catastrophic events.»

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Although stars can never attain that much mass, Albert Einstein's 1916 general theory of relativity put Michell's hunch about supermassive objects onto solid theoretical ground.

Einstein's theory of general relativity, put forth in 1915, holds that space and time are united as one malleable entity, spacetime.

«Theories of gravity that are different from general relativity often make such predictions, and we have put new restrictions on the parameters that describe these theories.»

The physicist's theory of general relativity, which celebrates its centenary this year, is responsible for putting a giant cosmic ring on a galaxy hidden at the centre of this image.

After tinkering with Einstein's general relativity equations to put in a new correction factor, he used the data from the experiment to calculate gravity's speed: 1.06 times that of light, give or take an error of 20 percent.

Producing an image that puts this century - old theory of general relativity on trial won't require any conceptual breakthroughs, says Doeleman.

If we look outside the scientific enterprise of his time to the culture in general, we discover that this same turn - of - the - century period in which Einstein conceived his theory of relativity put him in the national German - speaking Jewish company of such contemporaries as Sigmund Freud, Franz Kafka, the revolutionary atonalist composer Arnold Schoenberg, the critic Walter Benjamin, the great anthropologist Franz Boas, and the philosopher of symbolic forms Ernst Cassirer.

The answer is an exotic form of matter in just the right state to put a key assumption of Einstein's general theory of relativity to the test.

In 1919 general relativity was on the cusp of eclipsing Sir Isaac Newton's law of universal gravitation, put forth in 1687.

That put him in the awkward position of having to undo the unification of time and space, a key achievement of Einstein's general relativity.

It puts relevant parts of mathematics to use, and finds parts of the vast field of mathematics that are useful, such as Riemann geometries that Einstein used for general relativity, or eigenvalues and matrix operators used by various other physicists for quantum mechanics.